Multi -talented artist, Major figure of the Art Deco movement, Jean Dunand (1877-1942) has always placed experimentation at the heart of his practice and sought to draw from the matter of new forms of expression. This undisputed master in the art of dinantry magnifies the surface of the objects he has shaped with a hammer by complex decorative processes. In lacquer virtuoso, He combines this vegetable resin with metal, Before putting on furniture, panels, jewelry, Book bindings, thus opened the way to new aesthetics.
This exhibition, which benefits from many exceptional loans from the Dunand family, pays tribute to this alchemist of modernity, Trained at the Geneva Industrial Arts School, who so brilliantly illustrated on the Parisian stage of the in-between wars.